Annals of the History of Computing

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks remain a persistent nuisance on the Internet. They exploit the fact that the Internet lacks centralized access control. Since this vulnerability was a core design decision of the early Internet, DDoS attacks…

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers.

We trace the roots of abstract interpretation and its role as a foundational principle to understand and design static program analysis and verification methods. Starting from the historical roots of formal methods and static program analysis, we show …

Max Newman became Professor of Pure Mathematics at Manchester University in 1945, having led the outstandingly successful Colossus cryptanalytical project at Bletchley Park during the war. He obtained Royal Society funding to set up a Computing Machine…

During the first years of ARPAnet operations, computers were not highly reliable, but the network was built from standard computers and was expected to function as a utility with high reliability. We managed to achieve the desired reliability, as perce…

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers.

One popular way of viewing technological change is to see each technology as going through a lifecycle, which would include stages such as invention, innovation, maturity, operations and maintenance, decline, and, eventually, obsolescence. For some tim…

Presents the introductory editorial for this issue of the publication.

The interdisciplinary Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture continues to develop new and exciting projects, initiatives, and activities to facilitate, conduct, and advance research, resources and understandings of computing and…